Storm dumps about 6 inches on Stark; more snow in forecast

The latest blast of wintry weather dumped about a half foot of snow in the area.

Lori Monsewicz CantonRep.com staff writer @lmonsewiczREP

Schools closed throughout Stark County Wednesday as salt-and-snow plows did their thing.

The latest blast of wintry weather dumped about a half foot of snow in the area and more was on the way, according to the National Weather Service.

The weather service website listed the chance of snow Wednesday at 60 percent falling only to a 50 percent chance Wednesday night.

Up to 3 inches could be expected during the day with "blustery" conditions and winds out of the northwest at up to 21 mph, the website said. The temperature was expected to reach 31 degrees before falling to an overnight low of 15, and then rising on Thanksgiving Day to 29 degrees.

Troopers at the Ohio Highway Patrol's Canton post did not have an unusually high number of crashes to run through. At 7:30 a.m., however, they were on Mount Pleasant Street NE, where a car had struck a pole, downing wires, a dispatcher said, adding that no one was trapped or seriously injured.

Dave Torrence, chief deputy engineer for the Stark County Engineer's Office, said that all the county's plow trucks had been on the roads since 4 a.m. Tuesday and that, at 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, "Everything's going fine."

No roads were closed. While no one area of the county had been experiencing tougher conditions than any other, on Tuesday it appeared that the northeastern part of Stark County was hit harder than anywhere else.

Kirk Lombardy, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Cleveland, said 5.6 inches of snow fell between 12:01 a.m. Tuesday and 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, and that another half inch had fallen up until just before 8 a.m. Wednesday.

"We have lake-effect (snowfall) going on right now, so there's a possibility we can get a few more inches out of that today," he said about 8 a.m.

Light snow was falling at the Akron-Canton Airport at the time and the temperature was 32 degrees with winds out of the northwest at 7 mph making the wind chill feel more like 25, the weather service's website said.